Finding Hope - A Sermon on the Power of Prayer
I was sitting in the backyard the additional day thinking about how much an easy sermon on the power of prayer can actually change someone's perspective when life gets messy. It's amusing the way we often treat prayer as the last resort—kind of like a "break glass in case of emergency" fire extinguisher—rather than the thing that maintains us grounded day in and day out. We wait until the bills are mounting up or even a relationship is hitting the rocks before we actually start talking to God, but there's so much even more into it than just asking for assist when things go sideways. ...